Home » Search Center » Results: HypeBot
Results for "HypeBot"
Record Label Rule Book Gets Startups No Where
We're learning something important about music startups. If a company is cool and people like it, there's a good chance that they're either getting sued or working their way up the magical list. Grooveshark is a perfect example of this. More and more people are getting turned onto the site because the interface is pretty and ...
Effortlessness is the Enemy of Cloud-Based Music.
If you like, just skip ahead and read my latest MTT essay here. Early in January, I did a rather extensive review of Thumbplay Music. In it, I suggested features that were missing from the cloud-based music service. Soon thereafter, I was in a book store and I started flipping through The Upside of Irrationality by ...
Buzzdeck - Social Analytics for Bands and Managers
BuzzDeck is a music analytics tool developed by AWAL, a London-based music distributor. It's been floating around for a couple months now. The service enables artists and their managers to track everything from their Twitter followers to who is watching their videos online. All of this info is pulled into a dashboard wherein the activity across ...
Facebook's Reverbnation Block Was Just "A Mistake", but Serves as Reminder of Larger Issue
Yesterday, ReverbNation told its tens of thousands of active artist users that Facebook had disabled RN links on their site. “This was a mistake in one of our automated systems for preventing spam," a Facebook spokesperson told Hypebot and by late in the day, the problem had been fixed. But the incident serves as a reminder ...
Sonicbids Adds Its Own Facebook Profile Builder Plus a Video Tour
RootMusic is getting kudos for its program that creates great looking Facebook Profiles and ReverbNation has a popular tool that makes it even easier by pulling from assets already stored in its system. Now Sonicbids has added a Profile builder with a feature that encourages fans to “Like" an artist: As you might expect, Sonicbids pulls ...
Piratebox: A DIY File-Sharing Network in a Lunchbox
2011 is going to be a sad year if music pirates, academics, and hackers are able to create more things to get people excited about music than a multi-billion dollar a year industry. Fans have The Music Bay to look forward to in April and today they have PirateBox, an offline file-sharing network. David Darts, a ...
Warner Music Group Tech Guru Ethan Kaplan Exits
Ethan Kaplan, the popular SVP of Emerging Technology for Warner Music Group has left the company. Kaplan has not announced where he'll land, but he will continue running the R.E.M. fan site Murmurs.com. While praising his team, Kaplan was also not without criticism: “This business is changing, and one of the things that has always remained ...
It's Official: First Master Degree in Beatles Awarded
Back in 2009, Liverpool Hope University launched a Master Of Arts course, titled The Beatles—Popular Music and Society. A Canadian woman has become the first person to graduate with the degree. In the course, Mary-Lu Zahalan-Kennedy told the BBC that she studied, “how The Beatles came to be. What the political and social climate was and ...
How To: Give Fans Control of an Album Release
Say you're a band from Australia and you have a new album coming out. It's done. You've picked a release date, but it's not really set in stone. There's a tour coming up through the US in April and that seemed like the best time to release it. No point in touring unless you can put ...
#Midem Hot Topics: The Cloud, Music Tech and the One That Just Won't Go Away... Control
I just got back from Midem 2011 and will post some very informative presentations in the coming days. While there were no game changing announcements, music in the cloud—streaming, lockers, mobile—was on everyone's lips. It's clearly what fans want and the assembled companies appeared intent on giving it to them. Sadly, however, the debate still continues over ...
